Talk:WHBQ-FM

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Format
There has now been several days of editwarring over whether this station's format is more appropriately labelled as hot adult contemporary or as contemporary hit radio. Now, for one thing, hot AC vs. CHR is a subtle distinction that isn't always particularly obvious to outsiders at the best of times — but for another, this edit war has now landed as a redlinked category problem, because some IP cretin somehow got it into their head that the category for CHR stations would be at "Top 40 radio stations" instead of "Contemporary hit radio stations". (Spoiler alert: it isn't.)

I note that the station's website is offering very little that would help me determine which it is: when I tried to listen to the stream I only heard songs that could equally be played on either a CHR or a HAC, with no songs that clearly sat on side or the other of the fuzzy line between those two things, and I can't find any "songs played" scroll of the playlist over the past few hours or days to get any extended sense of where it might sit on the CHR vs. HAC continuum either.

Accordingly, I've had to editprotect the article for one week to shut down the editwar. Figure this the hell out on the talk page, and then leave the categories the hell alone and don't ever make this the categorization cleanup project's problem again. Bearcat (talk) 11:40, 7 May 2023 (UTC)


 * The one reliable source I'm seeing discuss this, Radio Insight: Q107.5 Returns as WHBQ-FM Shifts to Adult CHR, describes the format at "adult-leaning CHR," which seems to match up best with Adult CHR (which is connected to Adult Top 40/Adult Pop), which is different from both Hot AC and CHR, although sometimes lumped in with Hot AC. The category would be Category:Adult top 40 radio stations in the United States. &mdash;Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 22:03, 16 May 2023 (UTC)